KAUKAUNA – St. Ignatius Chesterton Academy will host its baccalaureate Mass and graduation ceremony for the class of 2025 beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
The Mass will be at 6 p.m. at Holy Cross Church (309 Desnoyer St., Kaukauna) with the graduation ceremony and social immediately following in the St. Ignatius/Holy Cross gymnasium (220 Doty St., Kaukauna.)
The eleven members of the St. Ignatius Chesterton Academy class of 2025 are Hunter Baeten, Elizabeth Bayer, Ella Eggleston, MaryClaire Geniesse, Felicia Jaure, Hannah Klotz, Malachi Lautenschlager, Terese McKee, Stephen Moore, Veronica Patzner, and Katharine Schoeni.
The public are invited to attend the Mass and ceremony, with a brief social and refreshments to follow.
St. Ignatius Chesterton Academy opened in the fall 2021 in Kaukauna. The class of 2025 is the first graduating class to have attended Chesterton Academy all four years.
As the only Catholic classical high school in the Fox Valley and a member of the international Chesterton Schools Network, St. Ignatius Chesterton Academy offers a rigorous classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith.
The high school was an expansion to the existing St. Ignatius Catholic School–the Fox Valley’s only Catholic classical school–which serves students 3K through grade 8 in Kaukauna.